This year the Senior Leadership class has been busy organizing many events and improving their leadership skills.  Our Terry Fox run was a huge success this year by smashing previous donation records. The school  raised $2,288.88 for the Terry Fox Foundations.  We wanted to recognize the 3 classes who raised the most:  Ms. Dunne’s, Ms. V. Pereira’s and Mr. Shier’s.  At the end of our run Charles Yu, Nolan Welsh and Brolan Masuhara were the first to reach the finish line.

Up next for the class was the Fall Pep Rally.  The teams who performed included the Sr. and Jr. Girls Volleyball, Sr. Boys Volleyball, Sr. Boys Soccer, The Whitecaps, The Cross Country Team and the Theatre Production Team.  Every team did an amazing job with their dance or cheer but the Whitecaps stole the show with their dance-off.

The class is currently organizing their Christmas Events like the Gingerbread House Event with Primary Grades and Basketball and Volleyball Intramurals.  During our Food Drive, the school was able to donate 24 boxes of food to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and with the help of this year’s Intramural teams, we were able to raise $183.  The winner of this year’s Deck The Door Contest was Mrs. Hemmingway’s Period 2 Class.  Runner Ups were Mrs. Dunne and the entire Home Ec. Department.  Photos of our winners can be seen at the Leadership Class webpage (http://sd41blogs.ca/central-leadership/).  Thank you to everyone who participated in these great events!

This year’s class has undertaken many exciting events to start of the school year.  After Dragonboating, organizing the Terry Fox Run and helping out at the Gr. 8 Retreat the class held the always popular Fall Sports Pep Rally.  This year’s event looked and sounded great.  The sounds were provided by the cheers of the Senior Girls Volleyball, Cross Country and Dance Team.  The Cheer Team started off the event with an exciting performance. Next, the class has organized a number of other school and community events including Gingerbread Houses with our feeder schools, Basketball Skills Competition, Photos with Santa, Mitten Drive, Winter Showcase and Centralympics.

During December the Leadership Class began a number of projects that proved to be a great success.  First, the class visited many of our feeder schools to make Gingerbread Houses with the grade 2 classes.  The class also organized a White Ribbon Campaign to bring awareness to ending violence against women.  Our Food Drive collected 48 boxes and more than 1500 items for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.  The class also held a Santa Photo Day so students could get their picture taken with our guest Santa (Thanks Paul S!).  Coming in January is the second Pep Rally for our winter teams which will be kicked off with a Spirit Week.

The Fall Sports Pep Rally on November 1 was a huge success! The Cheer Team, Senior Girls Volleyball and Cross Country Team all showed their “INNER WILDCAT”.

The Leadership Class recently visited the UBC Ropes Course and were put through a series of challenges that tested their communication and team work skills.

This year’s class is working hard at organizing the upcoming Terry Fox Run on Thursday September 27.  They are also helping come up with new fun activities for our Grade 8s at their retreat.  Upcoming events include the very popular Fall Sports Pep Rally and Halloween Hunt.